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12-letter words containing b, p, e

  • peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
  • peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
  • peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
  • pearl barley — barley milled into small, round grains, used in cooking, especially in soups.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pearl harbor — a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.
  • pebble beach — a beach covered with pebbles or stones rather than sand
  • pebbledashed — covered with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
  • peeblesshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • pension book — In Britain, a pension book is a small book which is given to pensioners by the government. Each week, one page can be exchanged for money at a Post Office.
  • peptide bond — a covalent bond formed by joining the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another, with the removal of a molecule of water.
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • pereira bark — the bark of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Geissospermum, of the dogbane family, especially that of G. vellosii, used in Brazil to allay fever.
  • permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
  • peroxyborate — perborate.
  • persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
  • perturbation — the act of perturbing.
  • perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
  • peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
  • petit beurre — a small, usually oblong butter cookie.
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • phengophobia — an abnormal dread or terror of natural light
  • phlebography — venography.
  • phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
  • phlebotomize — to subject to phlebotomy; bleed.
  • phone number — of individual, business
  • photolyzable — able to undergo photolysis
  • phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
  • phytobenthos — microscopic plants that live in the bottom of the ocean
  • piano nobile — the principal story of a large building, as of a palace or villa.
  • picnic table — table-and-bench structure used outdoors
  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • picture tube — a cathode-ray tube with a screen at one end on which images are reproduced.
  • pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
  • pig breeding — the act or process of getting pigs to reproduce
  • pigeon blood — dark red.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
  • pipe tobacco — tobacco suitable for use in a tobacco pipe
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • plenum cable — (hardware)   Cable that can be (legally) installed in the plenum (the space between a ceiling and the floor above it). Such cable is (usually) teflon-coated so that it will not give off toxic fumes when burned. In some parts of the world such cable is required by law.
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
  • plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
  • pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
  • polybutylene — any of several polymers of butylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of lubricants and synthetic rubber.
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